GeForce 940MX vs Radeon HD 8790M

GeForce 940MX
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 28 Jun 2016
GeForce 940MX
Radeon HD 8790M
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 1 Apr 2013
Radeon HD 8790M

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 940MX

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8790M

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 940MXRadeon HD 8790M
GPU NameGM108 (N16S-GT1R)vsMars (Mars XTX)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size0 mm²vs77 mm²
Transistorsunknownvs1,040 million
Shaders384vs384
Compute Units3vs6
Core clock795 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs8vs8
TMUs24vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce 940MXRadeon HD 8790M
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 940MXRadeon HD 8790M
TDP23 wattsvs0 watts
Release Date28 Jun 2016vs1 Apr 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 940MX
    6.36 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8790M
    7.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 940MX
    19.08 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8790M
    21.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 940MX
    40.10 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8790M
    64.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 940MX
    610.60 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8790M
    691.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

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